Stimulus: Jobs for Colorado's Seventh District, I think we have a Culture of Corruption here, don't you?
Representative Ed Perlmutter (D) CO 7th, is proud of the Stimulus Bill he supported, even when he admitted on the floor of congress that he didn't read it. Perlmutter reports that his support of the Stimulus Bill created jobs for his district. Let's fact check the jobs he says he created for Colorado's seventh district.
Let's look at the Alliance For Sustainable Energy, LLC., who was awarded several contracts, but we will examine just this one, $159,559,420.00 for a contract in Golden/Lakewood Colorado. This contract reports to create 42 jobs, for $159.5 million dollars, which works out to be nearly 3.8 million per job. (Ed, I think we could have paid a lot of people to do absolutely nothing with that money and it would have made more of a impact on our economy.)
You would expect that a company awarded $159.5 million dollars of your tax dollars would have a web site offering the 42 jobs they created from your stimulus tax dollars, in your district. Let's go to the company website to find their jobs.
http://www.allianceforsustainableenergy.org/Default.aspx
Examining their website we find no jobs being offered, no Human Resources Department, and no real company only five proposed leaders, from the website which has a creation date of 2008. Interestingly these company leaders are/were/have been, previous to July 2008 when this was created, all associated with NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY (NREL) a government program that is part of the Department of Energy (can you say culture of corruption?).
NREL began operating in 1977 as the Solar Energy Research Institute. It was designated a national laboratory of the US Department of Energy (DOE) in September 1991 and its name changed to NREL. We do see references to press releases from two companies which have joined in a partnership to create this LLC (Limited Liability Company). Battelle and Midwest Research Institute have joined together to manage the NREL facility in Golden Colorado which is part of the seventh congressional district.
BATTELLE, a company headquartered in Columbus Ohio has one job offering at their website, which is in Colorado in the energy sector. That job is located in Pueblo, CO, not part of the seventh district, but part of the third congressional district, Rep John Salazar (D) CO 3rd, brother of Department of Interior Secretary Ken Salazar.
MIDWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE located in Kansas City, MO is offering no positions in Colorado in any congressional district.
So let's go to the NREL website and search for Battelle/MRI jobs. there are no jobs from this group. It appears that there is a single job in the state of Colorado which has been created by Battelle. It is not located in the 7th Congressional district.
As a citizen and taxpayer, do you expect a program that has been funded by the Department of Energy since 1977 would not be continued to be funded? Is this stimulus money more than what we would have already funded? If it is what happened to the money we already and/or would have designated to this program? Why was $159.5 million spent on this existing funded program and no real jobs where created?
Ed you have some explaining to do. The Alliance For Sustainable Energy, LLC was awarded approximately 20 contracts from the stimulus money according to Recovery.gov, which was over $1 billion dollars. They currently have no jobs offered in Colorado, but one of their partner corporations, Battelle offers one, which is not even in your district.
www.allianceforsustainableenergy.org
Alliance For Sustainable Energy
1617 Cole Boulevard
Lakewood, CO 80401-3305
(720) 279-6746
DL
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